Speaking topics in text
TPO 25 - Question 4
Cultural Lag
Technological change occurs very rapidly in modern society-sometimes more rapidly than many people are prepared for. As a result, when new technology emerges, people may struggle for a time to adapt to it. This period of transition, when people are adjusting to technological change, is known as cultural lag. At first, people are not accustomed to the new technology and may not understand it, they may therefore have a negative attitude toward it. Over time, however, their attitudes change, and they successfully incorporate the new technology into their daily lives.
Speaking recording
Votes
Speaking category
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 622.0 592.248995984 105% => OK
No of words: 159.0 155.574297189 102% => OK
Chars per words: 3.91194968553 3.80514564318 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.525876923 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.2045797038 1.79077849142 123% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 93.7148594378 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.610062893082 0.604071249207 101% => OK
Syllable count: 215.1 185.844578313 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.19417670683 117% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.224652158717 0.0650381309087 345% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.35341365462 46% => OK
Average paragraph length: 79.5 68.503853103 116% => OK
STD paragraph length: 52.5 21.3332995233 246% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 29.755 25.9943957902 114% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 19.995 7.84667146824 255% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 44.0 42.0642570281 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.61363636364 4.02192344571 90% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.26284809422 3.1217529195 105% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.27772727273 1.45093177766 88% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.944161156401 0.99851816184 95% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 51.0 39.0421686747 131% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.59 7.12997991968 120% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.168431372549 0.185688545393 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.160408455953 0.155154303396 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 45.55 47.1480722892 97% => OK
Average word duration: 0.286477987421 0.305395592593 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.169657955435 0.189427763521 90% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 7.94979919679 75% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.65 6.2937751004 74% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.17 3.39508032129 93% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.51 59.7592369478 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.991833333333 0.995987282463 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.856998823727 0.656000678711 131% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.67181986221 2.60215298798 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62997815493 1.56821927147 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.12952799122 1.99336655568 107% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.280993245283 0.317803793328 88% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.